One of the things I really like about Aperture is how it changed, simplified and organized the way I share, show, submit, distribute, present, and output my final images. At one time or another, I must have, and I still...

Apple has made an important interface change in Aperture 2.0, that you may not notice right away: the Primary Select control is gone. In its place is a new control for quickly changing to a Primary Only viewer mode. To understand exactly what this button does, let's re-cap.

When you activate the new Quick Preview option, Aperture displays previews much more quickly. In Quick Preview mode, Aperture stops generating new previews and uses whatever JPEG file it can find.

Prior to Leopard, when I needed to switch between Aperture and another application, I always used a variation on basically the same technique: Launch Aperture. When I needed to switch to another app, press Command-H to hide Aperture. If necessary,...

A lesser-hyped feature of Leopard is its inclusion of a number of new raw formats. This page shows a complete list of all of the raw formats now supported in Leopard. A quick peak shows that Apple has snuck in...

Further to the Time/Machine backup issue, Inside Aperture viewer Bill Cheeseman is on top of this issue for us, commenting on my last post about new information that Apple has posted. You no doubt saw the warning that “Running Time...

When I initially heard that Leopard was incorporating Cover Flow, I was less than impressed since, like Ben, it's a feature I never use in iTunes. But it turns out that it's a great feature for Aperture users, especially combined...

Bill Cheeseman brought up what looks like a potential problem that all Aperture users wanting to use the Time Machine feature in Leopard should be aware of. I don't think any of us want to take any chances with our...

Leopard has some great new features for digital photographers. For example, QuickLook is an exceptional way to get a quick view of an image file in the Finder. Meanwhile, CoverFlow, a feature that I thought was a stupid thing to...

I enjoyed the Steve Jobs keynote today at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. I listened to the 10 new Leopard features with a photographer's ear, and here are three of my favorites. One of the best...

The latest (and final Tiger update) contains a boatload of benefits for Aperture users. New Raw support for over a dozen cameras, changes to Core Image that improves Spot and Patch correctness, and improved RAW file format compatibility for the...

In January, I posted quite a few entries here about my shoot at Macworld 2007. At the time, however, I didn't go into specifics about who the client was or what the project was all about. Well, I can now...

After blogging during the experience of my recent Macworld 2007 assignment, I think I can safely say that it was a really good way to think in detail about my workflow and my use of Aperture. As well, some really...

After wrapping up my last day of shooting at MacWorld on Friday, it was time to sit down and sift through photographs. And, boy, there were quite a few to go through. I shot 943 frames for my assignment. During...

As I write this, it's Thursday evening and the end of MacWorld is in sight. It's a good thing too. I've lugged my camera gear all over the place and had my camera tugging at my neck for too many...

If you're an Aperture blogger on this site, you're either on a beautiful tropical island, or at the Mac paradise of MacWorld. I might choose the island if given a choice, but I'm happy to be one among the sea...

MacWorld continues to buzz on. The Keynote yesterday was incredible and, along with many of the other Inside Aperture bloggers, I was lucky enough to have a great seat right up front. Both the AppleTV and the iPhone look great...

The buzz level is very high at MacWorld. As the ever-insightful John Gruber noted over coffee, tomorrow will either bring what everyone thinks will come—namely the ever-rumored iPhone—or we'll see something else that's so good that we won't care that...

I'm revved with anticipation about MacWorld. But it's not for the same reason that most of you might be. Sure, I'm looking forward to the iTV, some sneak peeks into Leopard, some new hardware, and maybe a new phone. But,...

The Inside Aperture blog has been online for about 2 months now and I've made several blog posts that are of a technical nature or about specific techniques. Today I wanted to do something kind of fun with the blog...